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Potassa with Lime
Rub together, in a warm mortar, 1 ounce each of hydrate of potassa and quicklime, and keep the powder from the air in a well-stopped bottle. This is a caustic, but less manageable than either nitrate of silver (lunar caustic) 4200. Ferridcyanide of Potassium. or hydrate of potassa (caustic potash.) This is the red prussiate of potash, and is ob-